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April 3, 2025
By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A stoush between the Chief Human Rights Commissioner and a Jewish community leader has flared up following a showdown at Parliament. Appearing before a parliamentary select committee today, Dr Stephen Rainbow was asked about his recent apology for incorrect comments he made about Muslims earlier this year. “If ... <a title="Stoush breaks out between NZ Human Rights Commissioner and Jewish leader at Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/03/stoush-breaks-out-between-nz-human-rights-commissioner-and-jewish-leader-at-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Stoush breaks out between NZ Human Rights Commissioner and Jewish leader at Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Robert Reid The Enemy Within, by Maire Leadbeater is many things. It is: • A family history• A social history• A history of the left-wing in Aotearoa• A chilling reminder of the origin and continuation of the surveillance state in New Zealand, and• A damn good read. The book is a great example ... <a title="Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/09/behind-settler-colonial-nzs-paranoia-about-dissident-persons-of-interest/" aria-label="Read more about Behind settler colonial NZ’s paranoia about dissident ‘persons of interest’">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato The release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week is the final piece in a defence and security puzzle that marks a genuine shift towards more open and public discussion of these crucial policy areas. Together with July’s strategic foreign policy ... <a title="Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/13/out-of-the-shadows-why-making-nzs-security-threat-assessment-public-is-timely/" aria-label="Read more about Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public is timely">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2023
REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Peacemonger is a collection of essays about the much travelled Aotearoa peace activist and researcher Owen Wilkes, who died in May 2005. Wilkes was an extraordinary peace campaigner who discovered a foreign spy base at Tangimoana and was once charged with espionage in Norway and again while on a cycling holiday ... <a title="Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/22/tribute-to-a-human-comet-who-lit-everything-he-touched/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Nicky Hager strikes a win for media freedom and democracy Do New Zealand state spies unlawfully surveil the government’s political critics? Do they spy on critical journalists? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. And yesterday the government domestic security agency was forced to apologise for one instance when they were ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Nicky Hager strikes a win for media freedom and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nicky-hager-strikes-a-win-for-media-freedom-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Nicky Hager strikes a win for media freedom and democracy">Read more</a>
